Led the technical direction for the spectacular new online marketplace. Helped recruit and mange talent for its implementation. I also advised on technology purchases and training, with an eye to process automation where possible.

Business technology consultancy specializing in automating business processes. "If it doesn't make money, save money, or improve someone's life, it is not my business!"​ Consulted with a variety of small to medium sized businesses most notably two major Amazon sellers, as well as a travel startup, a retail furniture chain, a real estate brokerage with over 300 agents, and a school with over 1200 students. Analyzing clients' business needs, discovering business inefficiencies and opportunities, and implementing and creating appropriate existing software or custom software, to automate tedious and expensive business processes and marketing, bringing down costs and increasing profits.

● Wrote a “Systems Health Monitoring” logging program in PYTHON and SQL to log success and failures of complex schedule of processes, running on numerous platforms in numerous languages ranging from CRON jobs to windows processes to MSSQL scheduled jobs, allowing an eye on all critical process in an extremely complicated system in one single place.● Maintained ASP code for a complex vendor, customer support, and internal user portal, facilitating orders, shipments, inventory and claims on 15-20K daily orders, over 300 vendors, close to 500,000 SKUS and numerous shippers (primarily Fedex)● Automated FEDEX claims forms submissions and claims progress tracking in VB and SQL● Maintained EDI communications with hundreds of vendors including numerous initial setups with entirely proprietary software written in VB, SQL, PHP and AS2● Maintained an FTP CSV file system for inventory, claims, orders and shipments with over 100 vendors● Many other fixes, improvements, and maintenance of a complex system, written primarily in VB, C#, ASP and MSSQL, as well as interacting with numerous API’s, in a high pressure highly successful e-commerce environment

● Managed technology purchases, decisions, development and implementation for a successful and growing e-commerce company selling on multiple e-commerce platforms including Amazon(multiple countries), Groupon, Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento.● Managed the setup, coding and maintenance of all the technology behind complex marketing efforts using Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Mailchimp, Clickfunnels, Google Analytics, retargeting platforms and Mixpanel as well as many custom programs written in Python/Django, PHP and highly customised WordPress Instances. ● Managed the development of custom software for inventory forecasting, and up to the minute Sales and P&L reporting, combining orders on multiple platforms, inventory in multiple locations tracked in multiple softwares, interacting with multiple APIs such as Amazon, Groupon, Jet, and Shipstation written in Python, PSQL, MongoDB, PHP and Tableau, unifying all data into clear easy to read actionable displays● Implemented the use of LastPass enterprise Edition

Using Technology to make Torah study more enjoyable and successful

Ez1to1.com is a custom webapp I built on Python-Django where teachers can build their own Khan-Academy-like lessons using YouTube, quizlet.com, Google Earth, and other existing web-technology. Designed, coded, and deployed a fully functional web-app using Python-Django, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML and CSS. Designed an easily maintainable and reusable Django project from beginning to end using industry best practices and standards (primarily based on Lincoln Loop) Designed reusable Django apps, wrote custom Django models, views, and forms using Django built-in options, and custom Python functions. Implemented a full registration system. Created a user-friendly and highly responsive UI using custom templates with complex forms using JavaScript validation, AJAX calls, JQuery functions, JQuery UI elements, and custom HTML and CSS. Used existing technologies to best advantage. For example; using YouTube and Google API with JSON and JavaScript for customize YouTube and Google search, display, and usage tracking Did a custom implementation of timemaps.js using JavaScript Used git to track version, to share and collaborate.

Presided over the rejuvenation of a Synagogue starting with 12 - 15 members 80 and older to a congregation of 250 families and hundreds more for the holidays